I was honoured to join the indefatigable Darren Hemmings, Andrea Leonelli & Ashley Elsdon for Digital Music Trends SXSW special edition recently. We discuss Sonos, Pandora, IFPI, MusikMesse, SXSW & Brands, and vomiting on pop stars. Also features interviews with Pandora and A2IM.

“The thing we wanted to help people understand was a sense of autonomy and authenticity of the individual human soul. Just as soul is constantly demeaned in the media, so it is undermined by drugs, inside or outside, but in the end it’s the only thing we’ve truly got. As personalities we’re just a series of remarks picked up on ...